Watch and listen as experts from around the tech industry discuss how virtualization is helping businesses of all sizes optimize their operations and save money and time.

What is the best migration path to Windows 7? What's the best desktop management strategy for your company? Which virtualization solutions can save you time and money? This virtual event shows you how Microsoft can help you discover choices and preserve and extend your existing investments.

Watch this Video and learn how desktop virtualization can be used to reduce total cost of ownership by optimizing across all components of the desktop stack--including user settings and data, applications, and the operating system.

Watch this TechNet Edge video for a look at Hyper-V server and a quick lesson on getting started with virtualization technology on Windows Server.

The University of Miami turned to Microsoft to solve its problem with server sprawl. Microsoft System Center provided enterprise-class management and combined with Hyper-V to save money and time. Watch the video to learn more.

Get the latest from Windows Server experts, product managers, and evangelists at one online destination. The Windows Server Experts blog has the tips, tutorials, and advice IT pros need to get the most out of Windows Server 2008 R2.

Focusing on Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and R2, Storage Server, HPC, Foundation, EBS, SBS, and Virtualization.

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With strategic plans to grow its number of franchises across North America, 1-800-GOT-JUNK needed to ensure that its IT and server infrastructure could scale to handle growth. Upon review of several IT options, the company determined that Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V was the most cost-effective way to improve its IT environment.

Because of an acquisition, Ricoh Canada Inc., very quickly doubled in size in terms of revenue and the number of PCs the IT department had to manage. In response, the IT department sought ways to achieve even greater levels of automated management and control over the company's computing environment, and ensure maximum uptime for applications.

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 may sound like it's simply an updated release of Windows Server 2008, but it goes far beyond that: it includes many new features and technical innovations that were not available in the previous release.

Windows Server 2008 R2 provides enhanced management control over resources across the enterprise. It is designed to provide better energy efficiency and performance by reducing power consumption and lowering overhead costs. It also helps provide improved branch office capabilities, exciting new remote access experiences, streamlined server management, and expands the Microsoft virtualization strategy for both client and server computers.

Windows Server 2008 R2 addresses cost savings across a number of areas, including streamlined management, less reliance on expensive third-party software, more scalable application serving and lowered WAN bandwidth costs. Customers have seen server consolidation rates up to 3-to-1 as well as up to an 80% decrease in IT man-hours spent on rote administrative tasks like file system management.

Windows Server 2008 R2 adds powerful enhancements to Hyper-V including increased availability, improved management, and simplified deployments. The new version of Hyper-V also includes an exciting feature called Live Migration – the ability to move virtual servers across physical hosts in the datacenter with no perceived downtime for users, so IT can restructure the datacenter as business needs demand without stopping important work streams.

It's rarely wise to state that a new operating system is more secure than its predecessor because security flaws can take months to come to light after the software is released, but Paul Rubens says in the case of Windows Server 2008 we can say it with some confidence.

There are a number of new Active Directory Domain Services features in Windows Server 2008. These new features improve auditing, security, and the management of Active Directory Domain Services and show Microsoft's commitment to evolving Active Directory Domain Services. The following is an overview of the new Active Directory Domain Services features that are in Windows Server 2008.

The Government of Alberta wanted to determine the health of its thousands of workstations and establish a faster way to deploy server computers. It upgraded nine computers to the Windows Server® 2008 Standard operating system to effectively meet its multiple needs, such as enhancing security and more efficient server deployments.

Vancouver Coastal Health deployed Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) to accelerate application deployment, improved application access, and simplified recovery. It will continue deploying virtual applications and adopt virtualization as its deployment strategy.

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) chose Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to automate server provisioning. The IT operational staff cut time required to provision servers to test and deploy software that supports WSIB activities. Now developers can quickly update software and improve claims services and worker safety programs.

This paper shows technical decision makers and IT managers how organizations can reduce costs and improve their IT efficiency by optimizing their core infrastructure and adopting server-related best practices. This paper identifies which best practices are most effective in driving IT efficiency to reduce operating costs and free up human and financial IT resources to add more value to the business.

Traditional storage arrays struggle to meet all of the performance and agility needs of a virtualized server environment. 3PAR Utility Storage solves the storage challenges of this environment using massive parallelization for exceptional performance, 3PAR Thin Provisioning to allow physical storage to be allocated when used rather than when planned, and 3PAR Dynamic Optimization to tailor storage performance without disruption.

Lionbridge Technologies, a localization services provider, needed to centralize its IT infrastructure. The company deployed virtual servers in its corporate data center by using Hyper-V™ in Windows Server® 2008 and then upgrading to Windows Server 2008 R2. As a result, Lionbridge has cut electricity costs by 75 percent in its virtualized environment, decreased hardware expenses, and tripled server infrastructure while using existing floor space.

This overview introduces Microsoft's virtualization technologies, focusing on three areas: hardware virtualization, presentation virtualization, and application virtualization. Since every technology, virtual or otherwise, must be effectively managed, this discussion also looks at Microsoft’s management products for a virtual world. The goal is to make clear what these offerings do, describe a bit about how they do it, and show how they work together.

Windows Server 2008 has added several very useful enhancements to Terminal Services (TS). TS Remote Apps lets you present TS based applications to users in a way that is virtually identical to a standard desktop app.

The forum for general R2 questions as well as questions for Directory Services, File Services, Group Policy, Deployment, Migration, Printing, and Server Core.

The forum for questions on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services (formerly Terminal Services).